EP1993305B1 - Estimation of moving speed of mobile terminal - Google Patents

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EP1993305B1
EP1993305B1 EP07713977.2A EP07713977A EP1993305B1 EP 1993305 B1 EP1993305 B1 EP 1993305B1 EP 07713977 A EP07713977 A EP 07713977A EP 1993305 B1 EP1993305 B1 EP 1993305B1
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    • H04W64/00—Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management
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    • H04W88/00—Devices specially adapted for wireless communication networks, e.g. terminals, base stations or access point devices
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  • the present invention relates to a radio base station which performs radio communication with a mobile terminal using a radio channel, and a moving speed estimation method for estimating the moving speed of a mobile terminal.
  • a mobile terminal and a radio base station perform radio communication using a radio channel.
  • FDMA Frequency Division Multiple Access scheme
  • TDMA Time Division Multiple Access scheme
  • CDMA Code Division Multiple Access scheme
  • the moving speed of a mobile terminal may be estimated because it is used for, for example, position measurement of a mobile terminal, control of downlink transmission power of a radio base station, control of uplink transmission power of a mobile terminal, control of handover of a parameter in respective radio base stations at a time when a mobile terminal moves across cells, control of the average interval of a radio channel estimation result which is an estimation result of the state of a propagation path, or the like.
  • Patent Document 1 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2003-158779
  • the mobile communication system when there is a fixed frequency drift in a radio frequency used for radio communication between a radio base station and a mobile terminal, the mobile communication system operates to correct the frequency drift by a known AFC (Auto Frequency Control) technology in the radio base station.
  • AFC Automatic Frequency Control
  • US 2001/041536 A1 discloses a radio base station according to the preamble of independent claim 1.
  • an exemplary object of the invention is to provide a radio base station and a method for estimating the moving speed of a mobile terminal which can prevent estimation accuracy of the moving speed of the mobile terminal from being degraded.
  • Figure 1 is a block diagram which shows one configuration example of a radio base station included in a mobile communication system of the present invention.
  • the moving speed of a mobile terminal is estimated using only a radio channel estimation result in a state where an operation for correcting the frequency drift of a radio frequency by AFC (Auto Frequency Control) has converged, thereby preventing the estimation accuracy of the moving speed of the mobile terminal from being degraded.
  • AFC Automatic Frequency Control
  • the method for estimating the moving speed of a mobile terminal of the exemplary embodiment will be described using an example of a mobile communication system of the CDMA scheme.
  • the method for estimating the moving speed of a mobile terminal of the exemplary embodiment can also be applied to multiple access schemes other than a CDMA scheme.
  • a radio base station included in the mobile communication system of the exemplary embodiment is configured to include receiving antenna 101, radio receiver 102, path delay detector/setector 103, channel estimator 104, and speed estimator 105.
  • Path delay detector/selector 103, channel estimator 104, and speed estimator 105 are implemented by an LSI composed of logic circuitry and the like, or a processing device or the like such as a DSP (Digital Signal Processor) or a CPU which implements functions of these components according to a program.
  • DSP Digital Signal Processor
  • Receiving antenna 101 receives a radio signal sent form a mobile terminal, as well as radiates a radio signal to be sent from the radio base station toward a mobile terminal. Since the exemplary embodiment is intended to propose a method for estimating the moving speed of a mobile terminal from a received signal, description of a transmitting function included in the radio base station will be omitted in the following.
  • the number of elements and the alignment method of a receiving antenna included in receiving antenna 101 used in the exemplary embodiment may be of any known configuration, and are not limited to a specific configuration.
  • the received signal since the received signal goes through a plurality of radio channels, there is a multipath component whose delay amount is different even if it is a same user's signal component.
  • Radio receiver 102 includes a low noise amplifier, a bandlimiting filter, a mixer, a local oscillator, an AGC (Auto Gain Controller), a quadrature detector and low-pass filter, an analog-to-digital converter, and the like, and performs amplification of a signal received by receiving antenna 101, and frequency conversion (radio frequency to baseband signal frequency), quadrature detection, and analog-digital conversion with respect to the received signal. It performs output as a baseband signal to path delay detector/selector 103 and channel estimator 104. Radio receiver 102 used in the exemplary embodiment may be of any know configuration, and is not limited to a specific configuration.
  • Path delay detector/selector 103 detects timing of a multipath component of a desired user signal (a user signal of a communication target), i.e., a path delay, from an output signal of radio receiver 102.
  • a desired user signal a user signal of a communication target
  • the method for separating a desired signal from a received signal in which a plurality of user signals are multiplexed, the method for detecting a path delay, and the number of path delays to be detected are not specifically limited, and any known method may be used.
  • a method for detecting a path delay for example, there is a method for detecting a path delay using a known symbol (a pilot symbol or the like) corresponding to a desired user signal.
  • Path delay detector/selector 103 selects a path delay which satisfies a criterion in accordance with a preset selection criterion, from a plurality of detected path delays.
  • Selection criteria of a path delay are not limited to the above described (1) to (4), and other selection criteria may be provided.
  • Path delay information which indicates a selected path delay is outputted to channel estimator 104.
  • Channel estimator 104 performs radio channel estimation of the desired user signal at each path delay timing obtained from the path delay information based on the path delay information outputted from path delay detector/selector 103 and the output signal of radio receiver 102.
  • radio channel estimation method for example, there is a method in which radio channel estimation is performed using a known symbol (a pilot symbol or the like) corresponding to a desired user signal.
  • the radio channel estimation method is not limited to the above described method, and any known method may be used.
  • Channel estimator 104 outputs a radio channel estimation result of the desired user signal to speed estimator 105.
  • Speed estimator 105 receives, as inputs, the radio channel estimation result of the desired user signal outputted from channel estimator 104 and AFC control information, and using the AFC control information, determines whether or not to use the radio channel estimation result at this time for estimating the moving speed of a relevant user (mobile terminal).
  • AFC is a function of estimating a fixed frequency drift of a desired user signal based on a reference frequency held by a radio base station, and of correcting the frequency drift of the desired user signal.
  • an AFC controller (not shown) for implementing AFC is provided, for example, on the output side of channel estimator 104, and AFC control information is outputted from the AFC controller.
  • AFC control information is generated based on a radio channel estimation result of a desired user signal which is outputted from channel estimator 104
  • a configuration may be made in which, for example, a frequency drift of a desired user signal contained in a received signal at radio receiver 102 is detected and AFC control information which indicates the amount of the frequency drift is outputted.
  • the AFC scheme may be of any configuration if a frequency drift of a desired user signal can be detected based on a reference frequency held by a radio base station, and AFC control information for correcting the amount of the drift can be outputted.
  • the method for determining whether or not it is used for estimation of a moving speed is not limited to the above described (7), (8), and may be a different method.
  • Speed estimator 105 estimates the moving speed of a mobile terminal corresponding to a desired user signal from a radio channel result determined to be used for estimation of the moving speed, and outputs the estimation result as user speed information.
  • a moving speed estimation method there is the method for estimating a moving speed from an auto-correlation of a radio channel estimation result as described in Patent Document 1.
  • the moving speed estimation method is not limited to the above described method, and any known method may be used.
  • whether a correction operation to correct a frequency drift of a radio frequency by AFC has converged or not is determined, and a moving speed of a mobile terminal is estimated using only the radio channel estimation result at a time when the correction operation has converged, and therefore a radio channel estimation result at a time when the correction operation has not converged is not used for estimation of the moving speed of the mobile terminal.

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  • Channel Selection Circuits, Automatic Tuning Circuits (AREA)
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